A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson
A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson
Reading Questions
Today’s Standards: Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science.
Daily Learning Target: Students will be able to read and understand the selected text, as evidenced by at least 55% accuracy on the accompanying question packet.
“I Do” Section – Completed by the teacher
Page / Question / Answer35 / Who was King Phillip?
35 / “This conflict was the natural result of growing encroachments by the settlers on American Indian land.” Encroaching on someone’s land is like… / t ______or i ______
35 / The American Indians sold land to the colonists, but Metacomet’s people were unhappy because they thought they should still be able to…
“We Do” Section – Complete with a partner.
35 / What was the final straw that drove Metacomet to declare war against the Puritan colonists? / The Wampanoags killed another ______who had ______them. Then the Puritan settlers ______and ______those Wampanoags for murder.35 / Why did the Wampanoags kidnap Mary Rowlandson and her three children?
35 / What were the two sad things about Mary’s return?
35 / What two external conflicts were Mary’s captors struggling against?
35 / Fill in the blanks. / From the perspective of a Puritan like ______,events had both a ______and ______significance.
35 / Whom did Mary seek to glorify in the telling of her tale?
36 / What character trait do you think would be the most important for someone in a life-threatening situation?
36 / What is an allusion?
36 / If someone threw a crumpled piece of paper into the garbage from ten feet away, which of the following comments would be an allusion? Circle it. / 1. “That was a great shot.”
2. “Nice shot, Kobe.”
3. “What a perfect shot that was.”
4. “Let’s see if you can do that twice in a row.”
36 / What types of allusions does Mary Rowlandson make frequently? / r ______
36 / Fill in the blanks with the correct vocab words. / As he surveyed his ______, far from feeling the elation that he expected, he felt ______, a direct result of his guilt over the ______he had brought his victims.
36 / Fill in the blanks with the correct vocab words. / Following the recipe was ______but the results were wonderfully ______and proved ______to her guests.
36 / Fill in the blanks with the correct vocab words. / The desperate mother ______the witch doctor to cure her son’s ______.
37 / How many people were taken captive in the raid in which Mary was taken?
37 / Is this story narrated in the first, second, or third-person? How do you know?
37 / What does the word “refreshing” mean in the first paragraph?
37 / Who is the “babe” on Mary’s lap?
37 / Why was the child moaning “night and day”?
37 / What did their captors keep threatening to do?
38 / What do you think a “wigwam” is?
38 / Mary describes her daughter as “the picture of death in my lap.” What literary device is this an example of? / m ______
38 / Mary uses a simile to compare Sarah to what?
38 / How long did it take Sarah to die?
38 / What is Mary now grateful to God for?
38 / Who was Quanopin?
38 / What did Mary’s captors do with Sarah’s body?
38 / Why was Mary not allowed to go near her daughter Mary?
38 / What do we learn about Mary’s third child?
38 / What does Mary beg God for?
38 / What is the first way that Mary believes that God answered her prayer?
38-39 / How does Mary’s son demonstrate selflessness?
39 / What is the second way that Mary believes that God answered her prayer?
39 / Why was Chapter 30 of the bible so comforting to Mary? / In it, ______promises to ______his faithful followers with their loved ones, no matter how far they are scattered apart.
Note: bier=a platform for a corpse or coffin
39 / Why is the Wampanoag tribe on the run?39 / While they were on the run, the tribe selected some of its best warriors to go and do what?
39 / How could we describe the tribe at this point?
39 / How did Mary actually benefit from being wounded?
39 / What do you think Mary means when she refers to one of the American Indian women as her “mistress”?
39 / When Mary alludes to Isaiah 43:2 of the bible, what is she comparing this particular bible passage to?
39 / On Saturday, what did her captors do for food?
39-40 / How does Mary’s attitude about food change over her first three weeks as a captive?
40 / This is consistent with the old saying that desperate times call for desperate… / m ______
“You Do” Section – Complete individually.
Note: pagans=non-Christian American Indians (in this case)
40 / What does Mary do for the first time in front of her captors?40-41 / How do Mary’s captors demonstrate compassion when they see her crying?
41 / What does King Phillip offer to Mary?
41 / Mary thinks tobacco is evil. Why?
Instructions—Read the paragraph that starts at the end of page 41 and ends at the beginning of page 42. Then read and complete this page.
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Police surround the bank Hostages & Captor The bank robbers are arrested
In 1973, two men attempted an armed robbery of a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. They shot multiple police officers and took six bank employees hostage. Over the course of the five-day incident, the hostages grew to sympathize with their captors. This phenomenon was later coined Stockholm Syndrome.
The theory is that once a person gets used to being abused, any lack of abuse from the abuser is misinterpreted by the victim as kindness or even love, which leads to positive feelings from the victims towards the abusers. There are many well known accounts of Stockholm Syndrome. Here are just a few:
* In 1933, Mary McElroy was kidnapped at gunpoint by four men while taking Mary McElroy
a bath in her home. They chained her to a wall and held her hostage for more
than a day. The men were eventually arrested. During the trial, Mary expressed
public sympathy for them. When the leader was sentenced to be hanged, Mary
begged the governor for mercy, and the man was instead given life in prison.
* In 1974, a wealthy nineteen-year-old named Patty Hearst was kidnapped by
a group calling themselves the Simbionese Liberation Army. Despite being
physically and sexually abused by the gang, she eventually joined them and Patty Hearst robbing a bank
even participated in an armed bank robbery with them.
* In 1977, twenty-year-old Colleen Stan was kidnapped by a married couple.
Colleen was kept as a sex slave in a wooden box under their bed for years.
Eventually she was allowed to leave the house alone, get a job, and even see her A young
parents (introducing her male kidnapper to them as her boyfriend). She quickly Colleen Stan
grew to want to please her abusers. Thus, despite countless opportunities to
escape, she waited seven years before she finally did.
I think Mary Rowlandson did/didn’t (circle one) have Stockholm Syndrome because… ______
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42 / What evidence is there in this paragraph that Mary is eager to please her master?42 / What did Mary ask permission to do?
42 / How did her captors respond?
42 / What happened when Mary tried to do so?
42 / What do you think the word “miscarriage” means at the end of the second paragraph on page 42?
42 / What is Mary surprised about?
42 / Mary encounters an old Native American woman (squaw) who also shows her kindness. How does the squaw show Mary kindness?
42 / “But now that was savory to me that one would think was enough to turn the stomach of a brute creature.” Explain what this sentence means.
42 / By the last paragraph, what do you think Mary has realized about her American Indian captors?
42 / Explain why you think Mary should or should not be grateful to her captors.
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